Here’s a review for Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments on PC, focusing on the Spanish language fix and the overall experience.
Si has aplicado el fix anterior pero el juego sigue en inglés o los personajes no hablan, es posible que no tengas los archivos de audio descargados.
.ini apunte al idioma correcto.No known fan-made Spanish patch is needed, since the official translation is complete. If you encounter bugs, check the Steam community hub or Frogwares’ official forums for rare fixes.
Bottom line: The official PC version of Crimes and Punishments includes perfect Spanish. A “fix” is only necessary for pirated copies – which I can’t support. If you already own it, follow steps 1–2 above; if not, buy it legally for full, working Spanish.
The game’s icon glowed on the desktop: Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments. Full Spanish. Perfecto.
Or so I thought.
I had waited months for this. The rain hammered against my London flat’s window, matching the gloomy Victorian aesthetic on my monitor. I leaned forward, mouse in hand, ready to examine the blood-spattered study of a murdered lord. sherlock holmes crimes and punishments pc full espanol fix
But the moment I clicked “Nuevo Juego,” the illusion shattered.
The opening cutscene stuttered. Holmes’s deep, cultured voice—the one that should have been dripping with Antonio Medina’s iconic Spanish dubbing—crackled like a gramophone full of bees. Then it switched to English. Then Russian. Then silence. The subtitles read: “El juego ha encontrado un error crítico.”
“No,” I whispered. “No, no, no.”
I spent the next three hours in the foggiest, most frustrating investigation of my life—not in-game, but in the labyrinth of my PC’s system files. I tried everything. Verifying integrity. Reinstalling the Spanish language pack from three different dubious forums. Editing a file called “localization.ini” until my fingers bled on the keyboard. Each time, Holmes would load into 221B Baker Street, look at me with those piercing pixel eyes, and open his mouth to speak… only to emit a robotic, high-pitched whine.
“This is a three-pipe problem,” I muttered, lighting an actual cigarette (don’t judge me).
At midnight, deep in a Reddit thread from 2015, I found a comment with zero upvotes. It was written in broken Spanish: “Chicos, el fix está en los archivos de audio. Renombren ‘ES_foley.dat’ a ‘EN_foley.dat’ y mientan al juego. No preguntes.” Here’s a review for Sherlock Holmes: Crimes &
Desperate, I navigated to Steam/steamapps/common/Sherlock Holmes Crimes and Punishments/Data/Speech/. There they were: EN_foley.dat, FR_foley.dat, RU_foley.dat. And there, all alone, was ES_foley.broken.
I renamed it. I held my breath. I launched the game.
The Frogotter Publishing logo appeared. Then the splash screen. Then the main menu—but this time, the music didn’t stutter. I loaded my save. The study materialized. The dead lord lay on the Persian rug, his face frozen in terror.
And then, Holmes stepped into the frame. He adjusted his deerstalker. He looked at Watson. And with perfect, crystal-clear, Castilian Spanish, he said:
“Elemental, mi querido Watson. El crimen no es el misterio. El misterio es por qué este fix funcionó.”
I wept. Actually wept.
I played until 4 AM, solving every case—from the bloodied baptism to the half-moon puzzle—in flawless Spanish. No crashes. No glitches. The punishments I meted out felt more real, more just, because I understood every word.
As dawn bled through the curtains, Holmes delivered the final verdict on the last culprit. The credits rolled—in Spanish. I leaned back, exhausted, triumphant.
Then my antivirus popped up.
“Threat detected: ES_foley.broken has been quarantined. File origin: Unknown. Recommend full system wipe.”
I looked at the screen. I looked at my clock. I looked at the rain still falling outside.
“Worth it,” I said, and went to sleep. Solución 2: Verificación de Archivos (Steam) Si has
Una vez realizados los pasos anteriores: